Life of Pi

ANIMALS: Domestic and Farm animals A) PLEASE ACCOMPLISH THE FOLLOWING TASKS ON DOMESTIC AND FARM ANIMALS: 1. Do you like animals? Why (not) ?__________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Please identify the following animals by adding the missing consonants:

__ A __ __ __ E __

__ E __

__ O __ __ E

__ A __ A __ __

__ O __ __ E __

__ A __ A __ E E __

__ A __

__ O A __

__ I __

__ O __

__ O __

__ A __ __ I __

3. Have you got any animals? What pets do you keep at home? __________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 4. What about farm animals? If you have any, please say which ones. _____________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 5. How and why do you have them? _________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ http://www.clubeinglesoure.blogspot.pt

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6. What do you call the young of farm animals??? FIll in the gaps of the following sentences using the vocabulary box that follows: a) One of the most famous literary fairy tales is the Ugly _______________ which starts with a mother duck hatching eggs.

CALF

b) _______________ is not only a fictional character from Winnie-the-Pooh books but also

KID

a young pig.

LAMB DUCKLING CHICKENS

c) A _______________ is a young sheep and the title of some films, theatre plays… d) A _______________ is a child but may also refer to a young goat. e) A rooster and a hen may have dozens of _______________ which we keep primarily as a

PIGLET

source of food – both for their meat and their eggs. f) A ________________ is the young of domestic cows.

7. Animals are reared to become adult cattle, but they are mainly slaughtered for their meat…

Please match up the animals and their meat.

COW – 1.

a) LAMB

HEN – 2.

b) VEAL

PIG – 3.

c) BEEF

CALF – 4.

SHEEP – 5.

d) PORK, HAM, BACON e) CHICKEN

8. What do animals do? Complete the sentences with the information given but pay attention to any necessary changes!

DOGS – bark, wag their tails BIRDS – lay eggs, build nests CATS – scratch, purr

a) My dog ___________________ his tail whenever I get home. It is also a good guard dog and ___________________ when it senses someone coming close. b) I love birds and Spring! I feed them and last year some ___________________ their nests in our backyard and even ___________________ eggs. c) My neighbour’s cat starts ____________________ as soon as anybody strokes it, but it has already ____________________ me once!

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ANIMALS: wild animals B) NOW DO THE TASKS ON WILD ANIMALS: 1. Please identify the following wild animals and add the correct article:

hyena Bengal tiger giraffe

an ____________

a ____________

______________

______________

______________

______________

______________

______________

turtle zebra orang-utan whale eagle meerkat wolf iguana shark elephant

______________

______________

______________

______________

______________

______________

______________

______________

dorado flamingo rhinocero

2. Identify the animal that best matches the following descriptions. Use plural forms! a) _______________ have got long legs and neck and orangey skin. b) _______________ often eat the leftovers of other predators though they are also skilled hunters. c) These aquatic animals live on every continent except Antarctica, but all _______________ lay their eggs on land. d) These big cats, _______________, rely primarily on sight and sound to stalk prey. e) The equids famous by their distinctive black and white stripes are _______________. f) Critically endangered mammals, the _______________, are among the most intelligent primates. g) _______________ are small mammals known for standing on rear legs. http://www.clubeinglesoure.blogspot.pt

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C) ANIMALS USUALLY LIVE IN GROUPS. USE THE CORRECT COLLECTIVE NOUNS IN THE FOLLOWING MATCHING EXERCISE. (YOU MAY CHECK WITH A DICTIONARY OR WITH THE LINK http://www.rinkworks.com/words/collective.shtml)

1. A flock of …

a) fish, sharks

2. A clan of …

b) turtles

3. A team of …

c) cows, elephants, goats, zebras

4. A pack of …

d) whales, seals

5. A herd of …

e) hyenas, meerkats

6. A school of …

f) wolves

7. A pod of …

g) chickens, birds, camels

8. A bale of …

h) horses

D) THERE ARE MANY PROVERBS AND SAYINGS IN ENGLISH CONNECTED WITH ANIMALS. CHECK THESE SITUATIONS AND SAY WHAT SENTENCE YOU WOULD USE FOR EACH OF THEM a) Why don’t you say anything??? ___________________________________________________________ b) To be uncomfortable in an unfamiliar situation. ______________________________________________ c) Those in charge do not see what happens behind their back. ____________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ d) What a hypocrite! ______________________________________________________________________ e) Don’t risk something you have for certain for the uncertain hope of gaining more! __________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ f) You shouldn’t feel too confident of success until it actually happens. _____________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________

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When the cat is away the mice will play.

Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched.

Has the cat got your tongue?

Like a fish out of water.

Weeping crocodile tears…

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E) ANIMALS IN DANGER! 1. Complete the text below with the vocabulary on your right: Many animals are in danger of _________________________(1) because we are destroying their _________________________(2) : _________________________, (3) or illegal hunters, kill animals for money, and others still are caught and then sold in pet _________________ (4).

zoo planet endangered cruelty

_________________________ (5) to animals is another issue, as so many are used in lab _________________________ (6), namely for _________________________ (7).

pollution cosmetics

Therefore, a good _________________________ (8) is sometimes the only safe haven for _________________________ (9) species. Nevertheless, everyone can do something. We protect animals by protecting the natural world, preventing _________________________

future poachers extinction

(10) and not buying wild animals; politicians can/ should legislate to stop hunting

experiments

and plan alternatives for our _________________________ (11). After all, our home is the

shops

animals’ home too and by protecting our home and animals, we are also protecting

habitats

ourselves and _________________________ (12) generations.

2. Have you ever visited a zoo? Are they important? Why (not)? __________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Here are some arguments in favour and against zoos. Please read all sentences attentively and then organize them!

“The guests never leave their rooms; they expect not only lodging but full board; they receive a constant flow of visitors…”; “Being denied its freedom for too long, the animal becomes a shadow of itself, its spirit is broken.”; “Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food low…”; “There’s no place like home”; when we destroy the animals’ habitats, either they move or die; “In a zoo, we do for animals what we have done for ourselves with houses: we bring together in a small space what in the wild is spread out”; in many countries of the world zoos are helping to protect animal in danger; animals born in captivity know nothing about life in the wild; … http://www.clubeinglesoure.blogspot.pt

(quotes from “Life of Pi”)

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Arguments in favour of ZOOS

Arguments against ZOOS

4. TEXT PRODUCTION Using the arguments above as well as others you may find relevant, please write down an argumentative text on this issue. Don’t forget to include your own opinion! _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________

“Life of Pi” by Yann Martel is a fascinating novel in which a 16 year-old boy, Pi, is the only survivor from a shipwreck. Together with a zebra, an orang-utan, a hyena and a Bengal tiger, they start a great adventure that for Pi and the tiger will last 227 days! A book that makes us think about our own beliefs, religion, endurance and the existence of zoos. A truly remarkable and impassioned defence of zoos – really worth Reading!

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